The Hidden Face of God : How Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth

Gerald Schroeder earned his BSc, MSc and PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctorate is in the Earth Sciences and Nuclear Physics. Dr. Schroeder's yeshiva studies were guided by Rabbi Chaim Brovender at ITRI, and before that by the late Rabbi Herman Pollack. He is the author of Genesis and the Big Bang, the Discovery of Harmony between Modern Science and the Torah, published by Bantam Doubleday (now in six languages). His second book, The Science of G-d, published by Free Press of Simon & Schuster, was on the Barnes & Noble bestseller list for three months. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife (the author Barbara Sofer) and their five children. Professor Schroeder served in the IDF, as do his two sons, who are officers.

The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom From the Publisher In The Science of God, distinguished physicist Gerald Schroeder offers a wide-ranging and brilliant discussion of such topics as free will, the development of the universe, the origin of life, and the origin of man, arguing that the latest science and a close reading of the Bible are not just compatible but interdependent. Religious belief is enhanced by an open-eyed investigation of the world, and honest science demands humility when faced with the astonishing richness of life's creation. From Library Journal Schroeder (Genesis and the Big Bang, LJ 9/15/90) is an Israeli physicist and scholar of Genesis who maintains that a properly understood Bible and a properly understood science provide consistent sets of data. In recent decades, scientific discoveries in cosmology, paleontology, and quantum physics do not demonstrate or prove the activity of God, but they do remove conflict with that activity. Rapprochement occurs when believers read the Bible on the Bible's terms, avoiding literalism, and when scientists realize that science is powerless to pronounce on a purpose for life. Schroeder is very lucid in explaining difficult scientific concepts, such as the passage of time according to the theory of relativity, and religious data, such as the original Hebrew words. Schroeder's careful and responsible handling of the data on origins from science and Genesis 1, combined with a fresh, judicious correlation between the two, is compelling. Highly recommended.Eugene O. Bowser, Univ. of Northern Colorado, Greeley Table of Contents List of Illustrations Prologue: A Colleague Turns Sixty 1 Has Science Replaced the Bible? The Great Debate 1 2 The New Convergence: Science, Scientists, and the Bible 20 3 The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years 41 4 The Six Days of Genesis 60 5 The Nature of God: Biblical Expectations for an Infinite yet Immanent Creator 72 6 Life: Its Origins and Its Evolution 83 7 Evolution: Statistics Versus Random Mutations 101 8 The Watchmaker and the Watch 115 9 The Origin of Humankind 125 10 The Science of Free Will 146 11 Why Bad (and Good) Things Happen 166 12 Bread from Earth: A Universe Tuned for Life 176 Epilogue: Well, What About Dinosaurs? 191 App. a Cosmic Background Radiation (CBR) as a Universal Clock App. b Problems in Estimating the Age of the Universe App. c The Logic of Having a Biblical Calendar App. d The Long Life Spans at the Time of Adam and Eve App. e Genesis Day Three App. f The Flood at the Time of Noah Notes 207 Acknowledgments 217 Index of Biblical References 219 General Index 221

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